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  • Susan Palwick of Rickety Contrivances has a wonderful post telling of a moving encounter she had with a pscyh patient.

    Grand Rounds, Vol 4, No 42 - The Seinfeld Edition aka TBTAM 2008

  • The recent archaeological finds alluded to above, have now shown that in fact there were Contrivances in this country well before the Norman invasion - contrary to what contemporary sources like the Domesday book, or as it was known at the time - Big William Ye Bastarde's Pop-Up Book of Hyse Newe Kyngdome, and so on claimed.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David Hadley 2009

  • On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, 77;

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good: I think these gloves are too big for me.

    I think these gloves are too big for me. Susan Palwick 2009

  • No wonder Darwin was so keen on them; no wonder he wrote the book I have already mentioned, The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • I thought that today we would look at the almost interesting history of The Contrivances that is unless you can think of something more interesting.

    The Contrivances - A History (Part One) David Hadley 2009

  • No wonder Darwin was so keen on them; no wonder he wrote the book I have already mentioned, The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • I thought that today we would look at the almost interesting history of The Contrivances that is unless you can think of something more interesting.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David Hadley 2009

  • On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, 77;

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • The recent archaeological finds alluded to above, have now shown that in fact there were Contrivances in this country well before the Norman invasion - contrary to what contemporary sources like the Domesday book, or as it was known at the time - Big William Ye Bastarde's Pop-Up Book of Hyse Newe Kyngdome, and so on claimed.

    The Contrivances - A History (Part One) David Hadley 2009

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